Posts Tagged ‘Accessibility

Many clients are still asking for various bookmarking widgets for social media. You know, the kind that shows a bunch of icons for Twitter, Facebook, email, etc. Two popular examples are ShareThis and AddThis, but there are others. What bugs me with every social media sharing widget I have looked at is that they are [...]

Hi Jeffrey, Back in 2004 we had been running Headscape for three years. Things were going well but personally I was a little dissatisfied with my career. I just wasn’t as excited about the web as I had been and was lacking a new challenge and direction. Anyway, we won a new client that was [...]

It is sometimes argued that using checklists when implementing or evaluating accessibility will lead to “checklist accessibility”, where developers blindly follow a checklist and do what they have to do to be able to check each item off the list without understanding why. I agree that in the wrong hands, checklists can be used incorrectly. [...]

As I’ve mentioned in posts like Beware of -webkit-text-size-adjust:none and Controlling text size in Safari for iOS without disabling user zoom, it is possible for web developers to prevent user zoom in Safari for iOS. In many cases this won’t be a huge problem, either because the site/app uses a sensible text size to begin [...]

When creating functionality that depends on JavaScript, many use a simple link (a element) to create a trigger for the function – you click it and something happens. That may be ok, though often it would be more appropriate to use <button type=”button”>Do something</button> or <input type=”button” value=”Do something” />. What is not ok is [...]


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